The big final is upon us. After a month of riveting football, often delightful and occasionally shocking

Losers’ finals are often pointless exercises where two recently damned teams reluctantly fighting against each other. Still, these matches do offer a final chance of partial redemption for one of the teams

Argentina, who enjoys the loudest crowd support after Brazil, takes on the Netherlands in the second semi final of World Cup 2014

This was a semi final line-up that most people had expected and predicted: Brazil vs Germany. But some unexpected events, mainly Neymar’s injury forced absence

Costa Rica is the only unexpected entrant into the World Cup 2014 quarter final. They face the European giants Holland on this Saturday

There are many similarities between Argentina’s and Belgium’s performances during World Cup 2014: both have won all their matches

Brazil faces its toughest test in World Cup 2014 when it faces Colombia and its constellation of goal-scorers in the quarter final

Two bitter rivals kick-start the quarter-final action in World Cup 2014. Germany almost always reaches the semi-final stage of all the tournaments they take part

This is the last match of the pre-quarterfinals, and the winners in all likelihood will meet Argentina in the next round

his match enacts an old theme: Latin American flair vs European doggedness. But the fact is that Argentina has failed to recapture their famed flair of Maradona’s times